Dec. 10-14

OPERATION SNOWFLAKE:
Our class went above and beyond with their coin donations.  We will vote on the books we want to purchase for gift.  The class was so excited every day to drop the coins in the jar and watch it fill up!

WRITING:
Our first class all about ______ is almost complete!  The topics ranged from All About Animals to All About Distracting Your Siblings!

Our writing this week will be a stinky, smelly, rotten combination of adjectives, alliteration and illustrations.  We are dissecting The Grinch's characteristics that made his heart so small and coming up with ways to make him grin.  We will move on to illustrating the lines of The Grinch song and putting it to video.  It will be quite a production!

READING:
Daily 5 will continue along with guided reading groups. The ancient knowledge tree is filled with facts! The students have loved finding out facts about all the types of dinosaurs that lived and comparing the differences (big and small) between them all. We are dinosaur paleontologists (just without the digging component).

We will work on how to inference and making predictions with pictures and texts and main idea with filling out fish bones and banana split sundaes!  This should make us crave more for main ideas!
 
MATH:
We will build on our pattern knowledge and move into Input/Output tables.  This will involve finding the rule from a robot, machine, patient and more to find what comes next in the pattern.  Students will use vocabulary of increasing by and decreasing by to state the rule and continue the pattern until they find their answer.

A review of tables and patterns will be on Thursday and we will assess this Friday.

SOCIAL STUDIES:
Our study on historical figures will continue with our independent research project. The students selected a historical person on Friday that they wanted to learn more about. This individual study will go through the process of gathering more facts from Pebble Go and library books, writing a research report and creating a model of what that person looked like.

If you have spare fabric, buttons, string.....anything scrappy or crafty....we would love your donations!  The writing and making of the models will be done in class, so all supplies will need to be at school by Tuesday.

REMINDERS:
Dec. 17 - Family Art Night
Dec. 19 - Class Holiday Party
Dec. 20 - Last Day of Fall Semester
Dec. 21- Jan.6 - No School